Author: Daniel Brooks

If you’ve got fire ant mounds popping up across the lawn, treating them one at a time is a losing game, because you only see a fraction of the colonies and... Read more.

If you keep seeing big black ants in the house, do not reach for a can of spray. Carpenter ants do not eat wood, they tunnel into it to nest, and the ones marching... Read more.

If you’ve got sugar ants marching across the kitchen counter, the fix isn’t a spray, and it isn’t wiping the trail. The short answer: clean the... Read more.

If ants keep marching across the kitchen counter, do not start with a can of spray. The fix that actually works is two steps: figure out which ant you have, then... Read more.

If you bought a jar of boric acid for roaches and they are still around, the powder is almost never the problem. Boric acid works, but only as a thin film you can... Read more.

If you are standing in the aisle reaching for the best roach spray, here is the honest read from someone who does this for a living: a spray is a spot tool, not... Read more.

The best cockroach gel bait is not a single product, it is a rotation. Buy one indoxacarb-based bait and one fipronil-based bait, place tiny dabs deep in the cracks... Read more.

If you are standing in the pesticide aisle trying to pick the best roach killer, the honest answer is that there is not one. The right product depends on where the... Read more.

If you keep finding roaches even though your kitchen is clean, the thing pulling them in is almost certainly water, not crumbs. A roach can coast about a month with... Read more.

If roaches keep turning up in your apartment kitchen at night, the frustrating part is that you can keep your unit spotless and still see them, because in a shared-wall... Read more.